Bug#823444: linux-image-4.5.0-0.bpo.1-amd64: breaks kwin (abort with fatal error) on Thinkpad T560

[Maria <wettererscheinung@bb-goettingen.de>]

Dear Ben,

thanks alot! Installing these packages from backports
(firmware-misc-nonfree, firmware-intel-sound, firmware-iwlwifi,
xserver-xorg-video-intel and the linux headers+image 4.5.0-0) did the
trick with Jessie.

I had some minor graphical problems like the black shadow above the
controlbar at the bottom not recovering after a dialogue opened and
closed again. And some software seemed to be buggy with new versions in
stretch so I tried again to upgrade/dist-upgrade into testing after
maken a safety image of root.

At first it failed to start kwin (fatal error - same like everytime
before) but finally I found out that the package task-kde-desktop was
not installed (only task-desktop task-german-desktop and
task-german-kde-desktop) Installing it did the trick and resulted in a
working Stretch.

I am thinking wether the not installed task-kde-desktop should be filed
as a bug as well (I used the netinst iso). But I don't know how to file
a bug for that iso.

Thanks again!
Maria


Ben Hutchings:
> On Wed, 2016-05-04 at 21:38 +0200, Maria wrote:
>> Package: src:linux
>> Version: 4.5.1-1~bpo8+1
>> Severity: important
>>
>> Dear Ben,
>>
>> I didn't find the error among the list of over 1500 packages shown to
>> me, sorry. This is an addendum to error #823156 which I wrote
>> initially on this topic. And the title of #819272 sounded similar.
>> I actually reinstalled Debian on a USB 3 Harddisk to test wether the
>> problem still occurs with the Firmware (firmware-misc-nonfree,
>> firmware-intel-sound, firmware-iwlwifi).
> 
> The firmware-iwlwifi version is too old; you'll need the version in
> jessie-backports.
> 
>>  But I still get stuck at the console. 
>> Kwin still refuses to load and aborts with the same fatal error.
> 
> You didn't say what the error is.
> 
> Which version of xserver-xorg-video-intel do you have?  You may need
> the version from jessie-backports.
> 
>>  I actually started with the install of the new header files and
>> kernel. As I had the same effect I started with installing the
>> firmware-misc-nonfree.
>> Then I installed the other two. But there was no change. Just an
>> error of failing to load some Kernel module, which was too fast to
>> see. I hope it is in the logs below. 
> 
> I don't see it, unfortunately.
> 
> Ben.
>